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13 Facts About Nicholas Muellner

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Nicholas Muellner was born on 1969 and is an American photographer, writer and curator.

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Nicholas Muellner is best known for his photobooks The Amnesia Pavilions and In Most Tides an Island.

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Nicholas Muellner received his BA in comparative literature from Yale University and his MFA in photography from Tyler School of Art, Temple University.

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In 2000, Nicholas Muellner collaborated with programmer and artist Richard Harrod on The Evolution of Closed Systems and Other Propagandas.

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Since 2002, Muellner has been a professor of media arts, sciences, and studies at the Roy H Park School of Communications at Ithaca College.

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In 2009, Nicholas Muellner published a book titled The Photograph Commands Indifference.

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In 2011, Nicholas Muellner published The Amnesia Pavilions, a photobook chronicling his 1990 and 1992 trips to present-day Russia and his return to Ulan-Ude to look for Tsvetkov in 2009.

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Nicholas Muellner adapted The Amnesia Pavilions to a multimedia format for Triple Canopy.

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Nicholas Muellner traveled to Russia and Ukraine to interview and photograph the men, and he published their stories in In Most Tides an Island in 2017.

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Nicholas Muellner connects the two worlds with the theme of solitude, and the work includes commentary on the internet as a means of indulgence and temporary escape from loneliness.

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Nicholas Muellner has had solo exhibitions in the US, the UK, and Russia.

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Nicholas Muellner has given readings at MoMA PS1, the Carnegie Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography.

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Since 2018, Nicholas Muellner has been a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.